2 ECTS Kourou Year 2 Semester 3 Compulsory Environmental sciences
Content
This course presents the community aspect of forest structure and dynamics in the tropics. It reviews general concepts of community ecology, measuring biodiversity, and explores major hypotheses attempting to explain large-scale vascular plant diversity patterns and tree coexistence mechanisms. The course then covers specific plant traits, interactions and abiotic mechanisms intrinsic of tropical forests and allowing the understanding of their structure and dynamics.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student should be able to 1) understand the dynamics of a tropical forest (recruitment, growth, mortality of trees), 2) recognize the different stages of a forest, and 3) know the means to observe and study these dynamics.
Teaching and learning methods
The course is provided in the classroom (18.5h) and in the field (3h).
Type of assessment
- Individual
- Written exam
Course definitions and practical exercises will be provided to the students.
Institution(s)
- Location: Kourou
- ECTS granting: AgroParisTech
- Organisation: AgroParisTech
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